Wadih el Hage

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Wadih el Hag is an al-Qaeda member who had been Osama bin Laden's secretary, and then the operational head of the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa. He is serving a life term in U.S. prison.

El-Hage had been a prison visitor to El Sayyid Nosair, who had been involved in the 1990 shooting of Rabbi Meir Kahane in prison. El-Hage also provided weapons acquired some weapons for Mahmoud Abouhalima, a confederate of Nosair. Both Nosair and Ahouhalima were associated with al-Khifa and the Jersey City, New Jersey, mosque of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman after the Kahane murder.